May 13, 2008
New GLIF Map Now Available
GLIF, the Global Lambda Integrated Facility, announces the availability of a new world map that showcases its advanced research and education multi-gigabit optical network infrastructure.
May 12, 2008
CineGrid Featured in Keynote at SURFnet Relatiedagen
SURFnet invited CineGrid Co-founder Laurin Herr to deliver the keynote at the 20th anniversary SURFnet Relatiedagen held May 14-15, 2008 in Noordwijkerhout, Holland. Herr’s talk, titled “Building a New User Community for Very High Quality Media Applications on Very High Speed Networks,” featured various CineGrid Exchange content, streamed in 4K over networks and JPEG 2000 decoded in real-time for projection on a large screen with 5.1 surround sound in the auditorium.
April 10, 2008
CineGrid to Present at the NAB 2008 Digital Cinema Summit
CineGrid will give a special presentation: "Introduction to Cinegrid" at the NAB 2008 Digital Cinema Summit in Las Vegas at 1:30 PM on April 12, 2008.
April 9 , 2008
Image Essence will collaborate on advanced codec research with Calit2.
Image Essence will work with UC San Diego researchers in the Calit2 Microelectronic Embedded Systems Laboratory to explore acceleration of the Image Essence codec on graphics and other processors, as well as to develop advanced codec features enabled by the codec's internal structure.
March 11, 2008
CineGrid Receives CENIC Innovations in Networking Award
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives (CENIC), which operates
CalREN, the California Research and Education Network, honored CineGrid, the one
year old international research consortium for networked media arts, with a
CENIC 2008 Innovations in Networking Award at its annual conference in Oakland,
California.
February 8, 2008
CineGrid Featured in iSGTW
CineGrid was featured in a story titled "CineGrid: Lend Some Power to Your Pixels" written by Karen Green of RENCI that appeared in iSGTW (International Science Grid This Week).
January 23, 2008
CineGrid Exchange Open
CineGrid 4K Digital Content Distributed in Support of RENCI Open House, featuring state-of-the-art visualization technology and collaboration tools of RENCI’s Tele-immersion Room.
November 2 , 2007
CineGrid Co-Founder Laurin Herr was the featured keynote luncheon speaker at CITI (Columbia Institute for Tele-Information) Conference at Columbia University.
Laurin addressed the Future of Streaming, Production and Distribution of Very High Quality Digital Media: Its Impact on the Global Distribution of Motion Pictures, Distance Learning, Science, Medicine and Global Security. For conference details: http://www.citi.columbia.edu/events/digitaltviptv.htm
October 25 , 2007
CineGrid Demonstrates International Networked Collaboration for 4K Motion Picture “Dailies”
In a historic proof-of-concept demonstration that could revolutionize the way movies are made, CineGrid, the international media networking research organization, successfully demonstrated the feasibility of global-scale networked collaboration for even the most compute-intensive, time-sensitive and interactive aspects of 4K digital cinema production and post-production. The demonstration was presented at Barrandov Studios, one of the oldest and largest media production centers in Europe, at GLIF 2007, the Seventh Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop, on September 17 – 18 in Prague, Czech Republic.
October 25 , 2007
CineGrid Demonstrates International Networked Distribution of 4K Motion Pictures
In a historic proof-of-concept demonstration that could revolutionize the way movies and other media are distributed globally, CineGrid, the international media networking research organization, successfully demonstrated how high speed networks can be used to deliver cinema quality 4K digital motion pictures at four times the resolution of HDTV, streaming “on demand” in real time from seven different playback servers situated in Japan, Europe and North America to an audience in Prague watching on a large screen with surround sound.
July 27, 2007
SIGGRAPH @ UC San Diego Offers Glimpse of Future in Super High Definition Video
Technologies to serve and display video in 4K -- at more than four times the resolution of high-definition TV -- as well as a short movie by Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson shot entirely with a 4K video camera, are among the highlights on display at the University of California, San Diego in early August. The demos will complement digital performances and installations at UCSD that are part of SIGGRAPH, the premier computer graphics and interactive technologies conference, which will attract an estimated 25,000 people to San Diego from August 4 through 9.
July 3, 2007
CineGrid Demonstrates Real Time 4K Trans-Atlantic
Streaming of Live Performance from Amsterdam to San Diego
The first successful demonstration of trans-Atlantic
streaming over photonic IP networks of 4K digital motion pictures and
5.1 surround sound was achieved by the international research
consortium, CineGrid. This demonstration, part of
the CineGrid @ Holland Festival 2007 project, was the latest in a series of ground-breaking CineGrid experiments using
very high quality digital media running over very high speed digital networks.
December 17, 2006
Calit2 Goes Hollywood
at First Annual CineGrid International Workshop
Calit2's first CineGrid International Workshop ended Friday but can now be seen
in streaming video. The conference explored the future of digital networked media for cinema (pictured) and
other applications.
October 25, 2006
Lucasfilm Hosts Audio
Engineering Society for Calit2 CineGrid Special Event
For the first time anywhere, 2K and 4K resolution digital motion pictures and 24-channel
digital audio were streamed from three different locations in real time using Calit2's CineGrid infrastructure.
June 23, 2006
Independent Film Director Teams
with Calit2 on ‘CineGrid’ Coast-to-Coast Screening of New High-Definition Movie over OptIPuter Backplane
Calit2 at UCSD teams with the J. Craig Venter Institute and movie director John Carter to
demonstrate a screening of a just-released, high-definition movie over a coast-to-coast optical network.
June 22, 2006
Canada and California Forge
Strategic Innovation Partnership Involving Calit2
Calit2, UC, and Canadian research leaders announce the completion of an optical connection between CANARIE,
Canada's national research and education network, and CENIC, California's state education network.
March 14, 2006
iGrid 2005 Receives CENIC
Networking Innovation Award
At its annual meeting, the Corporation for Education Network
Initiatives in California (CENIC) today gives an Innovations in Networking Award to iGrid 2005, the international workshop
hosted by Calit2 last September.
September 26, 2005
World’s First International
Real-time Streaming of 4K Digital Cinema over Gigabit IP Optical Fiber Networks
In a demonstration that could foretell the future of videoconferencing, scientific visualization and
digital cinema deployment, scientists from around the world meeting for iGrid 2005 at Calit2 in San Diego were treated
to the world’s first real-time, international transmission of super high-definition (SHD) 4K digital video.
